Phenomenon Quotes

623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally. — Gijs de Vries
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters. — Andrew Weil
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. — John Archibald Wheeler
If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working… — Betty White
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks… — E. O. Wilson
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… — Tom Wolfe
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation,… — Julian Baggini
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and… — Thomas Wolfe
Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops… — Steve Grand
We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has… — Jose Saramago
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely… — William Faulkner
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are… — Thomas Ligotti
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely… — William Faulkner
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon… — Albert Einstein
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… — Clive Barker
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being… — James Joyce
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do… — Oscar Wilde
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. — Ernest Hemingway
Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance--… — Rajneesh
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly… — Paulo Freire
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even… — Paulo Freire
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a… — Marcel Proust
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have… — Rajneesh

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